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A camel-derived MERS-CoV with a variant spike protein cleavage site and distinct fusion activation properties

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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to circulate in both humans and camels, and the origin and evolution of the virus remain unclear. Here we characterize the spike protein of a camel-derived MERS-CoV (NRCE-HKU205) identified in 2013, early in the MERS outbreak. NRCE-HKU205 spike protein has a variant cleavage motif with regard to the S2' fusion activation site-notably, a novel substitution of isoleucine for the otherwise invariant serine at the critical P1' cleavage site position. The substitutions resulted in a loss of furin-mediated cleavage, as shown by fluorogenic peptide cleavage and western blot assays. Cell-cell fusion and pseudotyped virus infectivity assays demonstrated that the S2' substitutions decreased spike-mediated fusion and viral entry. However, cathepsin and trypsin-like protease activation were retained, albeit with much reduced efficiency compared with the prototypical EMC/2012 human strain. We show that NRCE-HKU205 has more limited fusion activation properties possibly resulting in more restricted viral tropism and may represent an intermediate in the complex pattern of MERS-CoV ecology and evolution.
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hal-02631730 , version 1 (27-05-2020)

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Jean K. Millet, Monty E Goldstein, Rachael N Labitt, Hung-Lun Hsu, Susan Daniel, et al.. A camel-derived MERS-CoV with a variant spike protein cleavage site and distinct fusion activation properties. Emerging microbes & infections, 2016, 5 (12), pp.e126-e126. ⟨10.1038/emi.2016.125⟩. ⟨hal-02631730⟩

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